Glass process, combined polymers

Fig. 4 Schematic phase diagrams of a polymer solution showing LL phase separation with UCST behavior. Curve s is the spinodal, curve b is the binodal, and curve g is the glass transition temperature as a function of polymer concentration. BP indicates the Berghmans point, (a) LL phase separation is the only thermodynamic transformation of the system [17,25, 36]. (b) Curve c shows the crystallization temperature of a polymer fully miscible in a solvent as a function of concentration in the solution [17, 25], The LL phase coexistence curve (combined with vitrification) is a (classical) metastable process that lies beneath the crystallization curve c. In route 1, a polymer solution is supercooled at ALj, and the only active process is polymer crystallization. In route 2, the initially homogeneous solution is supercooled to a larger undercooling than namely AL2. Crystallization may compete either with LL phase separation when reaching point C, or LL phase separation coupled with vitrification when reaching point D. At C, crystallization may take place in the polymer-rich phase. At D, both LL phase separation and crystallization may become arrested by vitrification...

Recently a new preform-based fiber-processing technique has emerged that allows the simultaneous drawing of ChG glasses in combination with metallic electrodes and polymers [180]. 

Hybrid polymer electrolytes represent one of the most versatile classes of solid polymer electrolyte.To a certain extent, these hybrid materials combine the most important properties of their constituents, such as high transparency (glass-like), low processing temperatures (polymer-like), sufficient thermal stability (silicone-like), with high performance yield and properties not found in either material individually. These materials display a number of advantages over simple salt-in-polymer electrolytes and are believed to... 

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